---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public safety officers: off-duty employment."
description: "Public safety officers: off-duty employment."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 359"
citation: "California AB 359 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public safety officers: off-duty employment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Koretz"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2003-02-11"
last_action: "2003-07-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4495f94b-b21a-400a-b0a5-ac9240f3a1c7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB359"
source_hash: "4dfd4995d102f18ad5c3060cd2c3d7f5de3cc89ec128c49499ad69378169b790"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 359 (20032004) — Public safety officers: off-duty employment.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/11/03 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB359&version=20030AB35999INT)
2. **05/14/03 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB359&version=20030AB35998AMD)
3. **07/24/03 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB359&version=20030AB35996CHP)
4. **AB359** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB359)
5. **07/10/03 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB359&version=20030AB35997ENR)

## Votes

- assembly 3rd reading ab359 koretz by mcpherson — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 359 koretz assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Koretz — primary (person)
- Chavez — coauthor (person)
- Maddox — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2003-07-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 104, Statutes of 2003.
- **2003-07-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2003-07-14** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2003-07-10** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2003-07-10** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 9. Page 1736.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-06-23** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-06-19** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
- **2003-06-17** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2003-05-29** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety and Standing Committee on Public Employment and Retirement. `referral-committee`
- **2003-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2003-05-19** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1769.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-15** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2003-05-14** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2003-05-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 6). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2003-04-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2003-04-02** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-03-18** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2003-02-18** Referred to Standing Committee on Public Safety. `referral-committee`
- **2003-02-12** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2003-02-11** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4495f94b-b21a-400a-b0a5-ac9240f3a1c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).